Improvement in straw-cutters



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEL GEORG SCHMIDT, OF `WAUWATOSA, WISCONSIN.

lMPRovEM ENT IN sTRAw-CUTTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 209,523, dated October 29, V1878; application filed April 22, 1878.

To all whom it 'may concern Be it known that I, GEORG SCHMIDT, of Wauwatosa, in the county of Milwaukee, in the State of IVisconsin, have invented certain Improvements in Straw-Gutters, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to facilitate the cutting of feed for cattle, and it is accomplished by a machine which has a peculiar feed, which willkcnt the article into long or short cuts. A more particular description will be given farther on.

Referring to the drawing, forming part of this speeiiication, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention with part ofthe wheelshaft and a part of the feed-box broken away, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal sectional view of the same.

In the drawing, A is the frame of the Inachine; B, a wheel with knives on it; C, the shaft of the cutting-wheel l), a pulley on the shaft, over which a belt may be placed from a mot-or to run the machine, or it may be operated by the pins 1/ by hand; E E, wheels with teeth'on them for feeding the stuff tothe knives;

F, the knives, bent over and fastened to the arms of the wheel; G, a feed-wheel on the inside of the bo'x on top of the belt; H, a belt on which the stuft' to be eut is moved; I, pawl on the lower notched wheel, which moves the belt along; K, the arm which moves the pawl and keeps the belt moving; L, connections from arm K to lever M, which lever M is fastened by a pin, N, near its center, on which it oscillates, and a vconnecting-rod, O, the upper end of which is connected to lever M, and connected at its lower end to a cross-bar, P, which operates similar levers, pawls, and notched wheels on the other side of the machine, and the cross-bar P, crookin g down and connected to pitman Q at its lower end, and the upper end of pitman Q attached to crank R, attached to the end of shaft C, and pawl S on the upper roller E is attached to arm Kby a pitman, T. The arm K and lever M have holes in them, by which the pitmen L and T may be changed, so as to give a longer or shorter feed.

U is aboX sett-ingabove the feed-rollers, with weights in it, so that as the feed-rollers shove the stuff along toward the knives a platform, V, connected to the box U by rods Vil, presses the stuff to be cut between the feed-rollers and the knives; A', a board set in a slanting position for the stuft1 to be cut to run under and be held down in front of the upper feedroller; B', a weight attached to a frame to hold down the upper feed-roller.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure' The combination, with the feed-rollers, of the levers M and K, connecting-link L, pawls I and S, and ratchet-wheels E, substantially 

